A carton sealed today is not necessarily a carton that will open cleanly in six months. Seasonal stock held for the next peak. Spare parts kept for a service contract. Export goods waiting for a shipping window. In those cases the seal is not judged at the packing bench. It is judged months later, after stacking, humidity, and temperature cycles have had their turn. Short version: a seal fails slo...
Take a recycled carton, seal it, and pull the tape back an hour later. Sometimes it tears fibres with it. Sometimes it comes away clean, as if it was never really stuck. Same tape, same bench, different board batch — and that is the whole problem in one pull. Short version: clean the seam, test the bond on two batches, choose the grade by weight at the low end of its tolerance, H-seal the he...